Monthly Archives: March 2010

News from Support The Tour of Missouri, the TD Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championship and the Air Force Cycling Classic’s Crystal City Cup. Domestic teams, Kelly Benefits, Jelly Belly and Team Type 1, racing internationally. TIBCO/To The Top heading over to Europe for Flanders. And racing in the US should be ‘tight’ this year maybe as tight as ‘a bee’s dick’.

With the first event, the Redlands Bicycle Classic on the NRC in the books, Day and Teutenberg have taken the early leads in the individual standings. Jelly Belly p/b Kenda sits atop the elite men’s team standings and HTC Columbia leads the women’s team standings.

From CCA: After extensive consultation with athletes and Provincial and Territorial cycling associations the Canadian Cycling Association is pleased to announce the launch of the Race Clean OWN YOUR VICTORY program. This program is athlete driven and compliments the highly successful Roulez Gagnants au Naturel program that the Fédération québécoise des sports cyclistes has been…

The first two of six races of the Nature Valley Pro Ride begin next weekend with the Hillsboro-Roubaix (Illinois) Road Race April 10 near Saint Louis, and the Rock Hill Spring Races April 10-11 in South Carolina, near Charlotte, N.C. Like its namesake, the fabled Paris-Roubaix classic in France, Hillsboro-Roubaix favors hardy, experienced riders due…

Women competing at this year’s USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships have an added incentive: the chance to earn the opportunity to race against professionals at the premier stage race in the country. For the fourth consecutive year, the Nature Valley Grand Prix will include a composite team of six collegiate racers who will wear…

For the second weekend in a row, the Fly V Australia team defended the yellow jersey of Ben Day against all to win the overall at the Redlands Bicycle Classic, the traditional NRC opener. Alejandro Borrajo (Jamis/Sutter Home) sprinted to win the final stage, the Sunset Road Race. Updated with photos

On a very difficult Sunset Road Race Stage, Evelyn Stevens, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg, and the HTC-Columbia team held off numerous attacks from the entire field. The battle ended with a stage win for Stevens and the overall leader’s jersey for her teammate, Teutenberg. Updated with photos

Hilton Clarke (Bahati Foundation) ousprinted UnitedHealthcare p/b Maxxis duo Jake Keough and Andrew Pinfold to win the Redlands Criterium. Fly V Australia’s Ben Day defended his six tenths of a second lead to keep the yellow jersey. Updated with photos

Not again. Both Ben Day of the Fly V Australia team and Will Routley of the Jelly Belly presented by Kenda squad were determined not to repeat the past at the Beaumont Circuit Race. “I was in that little break here last year and I lost it by a second. I knew it all year…

Ina Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) not only won the City of Beaumont Road Race Stage this afternoon, she captured 15 of the 16 available time bonus seconds to leap into second position in the General Classification race. Teutenberg is now only 14 seconds behind current GC leader, Amber Neben (Dare to be-BMW-Bianchi). “I tried to get as…

Amber Neben (dare to Be-BMW Bianchi) and Ben Day (Fly V Australia) repeated their wins at the Redlands Bicycle Classic, the classic NRC opener in Southern California. The fight is on to defend the yellow jersey with three more stages to go.

Australian Ben Day came out swinging at the San Dimas Stage Race, winning the opening time trial and successfully defending it until the end with the support of his teammates on the Fly V Australia team. We sat down a day after his victory to talk about his and his team’s future, where our conversation…

The Hagens Berman Cycling Team is looking forward to the start of the Redlands Cycling Classic which begins tomorrow. Riding a wave of success after 2009, which included launching Adrian Hegyvary into the pro ranks with the United Healthcare Pro Cycling Team, the team is ready to continue its mission of bringing the top amateur…

At the San Dimas Stage, CalGiant Specialized unleashed what Directeur Sportif Anthony Gallino called his “secret weapons” while at training camp earlier this year, Australian Mountain Bike National Champion Sid Taberlay and U23 rider Andrew Talansky. “I had fun, it was good.” said Taberlay who finished second overall at eight seconds from the overall winner…

The National Racing Calendar (NRC) is USA Cycling’s national race series, which, essentially, helps determine the top team racing a full season in North America. The NRC also determines an individual national champion, with riders accruing points for race wins and placings during the season.

Here we go, the official start of the US professional racing season is here, not that there hasn’t been some hard racing before. The 25th Redlands Bicycle Classic brings together a very strong field of pro men and women vying for the overall win. Follow @podium_live on twitter for live updates during the race. Check…

An eight-member United States squad including a pair of current and former world champions will compete in 14 events at the 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 24-28. U.S. residents can watch the entire competition via on-demand webcast on www.universalsports.com beginning this Wednesday at 1:30 ET. The action will kick-off on…